Hospitality quotes

“- Alvin Straight: I want to thank you for your kindness to a stranger.
- Danny Riordan, Clermont Resident: It's been a genuine pleasure having you here, Alvin. Write to us some time.
- Alvin Straight: I will.”
Richard Farnsworth - Alvin
James Cada - Danny Riordan

“- Giselle: Now if only I can find a place to rest my head for the night.
- Robert Philip: What kind of place?
- Giselle: I don't know. Maybe a nearby meadow or a hollow tree.
- Robert Philip: A hollow tree?
- Giselle: Or a house full of dwarves. I hear they're very hospitable.”
Amy Adams - Giselle
Patrick Dempsey - Robert Philip

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

Sir Ian Holm - Bilbo

“If the Martians land, the're gonna need a place to stay. Just like everybody else.”
Jack Nicholson - Art Land

“You Spanish have a gift for hospitality when your guests are in chains.”
Errol Flynn - Geoffrey Thorpe

“- Miranda Frost: I'll show you your room.
- James Bond: A palace of ice; you must feel right at home.”
Rosamund Pike - Miranda Frost
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“- Lorna Campbell: You obviously haven't met our host, Monsieur Savage.
- Johnny English: No, thank God! You know, I think I'd rather have my bottom impaled on a giant cactus than exchange pleasantries with that jumped-up Frenchman. As far as I'm concerned, the only thing the French should be allowed to host is an invasion.”
Natalie Imbruglia - Lorna Campbell
Rowan Atkinson - Johnny English

“As we always say at the Guest House Paradiso: have fun, don't go in the water if you know what's good for you and try not to get shit on the sheets.”
Rik Mayall - Richard Twat

“- Alex: Hey dad, there's a strange fella sittin' on the sofa munchy-wunching lomticks of toast.
- Dad: That's Joe. He lives here now. The lodger, that's what he is. He rents your room.”
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
Philip Stone - Dad

“- Evelyn: Who invited them?
- Stephen Price: I don't know, it wasn't me and you say it wasn't you. Who then, Evelyn? Ghosts?”
Famke Janssen - Evelyn
Geoffrey Rush - Stephen Price

“Captain Kirk was your host. You repaid his hospitality by trying to steal his ship and murder him!”

Walter Koenig - Chekov

“Sure you don't want some chips? I exist on corn chips and jalapeños. Not too swift around a stove.”

Sir Sidney Poitier - Roy Parmenter

“- Rafe Covington: Sheriff, you're sittin' in my rocking chair.
- Sheriff Walter Moncrief: I thought that's what it was for.
- Rafe Covington: It's for people I invite to sit in it.
- Joe Gill: Walter, you ain't invited.”
Tom Selleck - Rafe Covington
Barry Corbin - Sheriff Walter Moncrief
Wilford Brimley - Joe Gill

“- Tom Cody: Maybe some other time, huh?
- McCoy: I doubt it, but anything's possible. Hey, look... About the spare bed: I'm just passin' through this district, I don't know anybody. I'm between jobs and last time I heard hotels cost money.”
Michael Paré - Tom Cody
Amy Madigan - McCoy

“- Bishop O'Hara: You took a vow of hospitality for all in need.
- Mother Superior: I lied.”
Joseph Maher - Bishop O'Hara
Maggie Smith - Mother Superior

“Robert! So good of you to favor me with your venerated presence!”
Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad - Hung Fat

“- Michael Waits: Do you see this writing...? Do you know what it means...? Hospitality. And you can't piss on hospitality! I won't allow it!
- Joshua Waits: What are you going to do to me, Daddy?
- Michael Waits: Tightening my belt one loop so that I don't feel hunger pains, and your sister and mother will have to do likewise.”
George Hardy - Michael Waits
Michael Paul Stephenson - Joshua Waits

“All right, we'll go to your place and you can show me your organ. But I'm warning you, it'd best be having music coming out of it.”

Sylvester Stallone - Jake Farris

“- Vic: In light of Earl's feelings, I think it would be best if we left.
- Enid Keese: Oh, no, no. Sit down, sit down. Let's finish this magnificent meal. Don't worry about Earl. He'll get over his feelings.
- Vic: He spurned my sauce!
- Enid Keese: No, he loves your sauce. He's just jealous, he can't cook.”
Dan Aykroyd - Vic
Kathryn Walker - Enid Keese

“- Bill Carter: If you never saw him before, why'd you let him kiss you?
- Ethel: After all, Bill, there is such a thing as hospitality.”
Roland Young - Bill Carter
Mary Boland - Ethel

“Come in. Come in, my child. We mustn't lurk in doorways. It's rude. One might question your upbringing.”

Pat Carroll - Ursula

“- Riker: Our guests have arrived. They're eating the floral arrangements on the banquet tables.
- Beverly: I guess they don't believe in cocktails before dinner.
- Troi: Oh, my God. Are they vegetarian? That's not in there.
- Picard: Perhaps we should have the chef whip up a light balsamic vinaigrette, something that goes well with chrysanthemums.”
Jonathan Frakes - William Riker
Gates McFadden - Beverly
Marina Sirtis - Troi
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard

“Yvette, could you attend to the Colonel and give him anything he requires? Within reason, that is.”
Tim Curry - Wadsworth

“- Louis Fedders: He's a prisoner; he should be treated accordingly.
- James St. James: Have you completely lost your mind? We're not soldiers and he's not the enemy. He's a pizza man.”

Keith David - Louis Fedders
Emilio Estevez - James St. James

“I'm a teacher, not a Holiday Inn.”
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp